Saturday and Sunday, May 13-14, 12-8 PM
23 Washington Square North

Just in time for summer, Island, a debut series of furniture pieces by the multidisciplinary artist Marc Hundley, takes its cues from the modernist architecture of Fire Island’s local warm-weather enclaves. Hundley conceived of the collection's assortment of handcrafted lamps, chairs and tables last summer at an airy tree-covered residence in Water Island, a car-less community on the eastern part of Fire Island accessible only by boat, that once housed the American poet Frank O'Hara WH Auden and others. (The property is now owned by Hundley's close friend, Justinian Kfoury.) 

Inspired by the region’s pristine remoteness, Hundley used rustic oak beachwood sourced from previous build-outs done on the house. “Getting building materials there isn't as simple or quick as it is in the city or main land,” he said. His use of found materials imbues the pieces with an arresting assemble-it-yourself quality that is both personal and utilitarian.

After his former studio mate, the abstract painter Matt Connors, gave him a book on the Italian architect Enzo Mari, Hundley begin incorporating Mari’s patchwork approach to furniture-making by cutting his repurposed wood slabs down to smaller piecemeal shapes to form intricate geometric trusses. Several of the furniture pieces incorporate colors found from the nearby beachscape, including pops of gas-can red, pebble black, turmeric-powder yellow and moss green. The top of one larger table is painted a deep blue hue that is meant to suggest a lagoon. An intentional use of exposed wood and concrete speaks to the works' rugged utility.

Back at his Brooklyn studio, Hundley continued to craft furniture with a hazy nostalgia for isolated island life. “I fantasized about an island a lot since between two summers the world seems to have gone mad,” he said. “I imagined being wrecked on some island far from the rest of the world, where I find some great empty abandoned house and use the wrecked wood to make it the nicest home for myself.”

In a fitting nod to the intimate nature of the series, the first survey of Hundley’s furniture pieces will be shown at Kfoury’s city apartment located in the heart of Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. “It’s a beautiful parlor-like space, but I’m replacing Justinian’s home contents with things I make,” he said. “It will be like my abandoned house on some secluded island somewhere.”

CANADA at Frieze New York 2017

Marina Adams, Etel Adnan, Josh Blackwell, Katherine Bernhardt, Katherine Bradford, Sarah Braman, Matt Connors,
Bella Foster, Grandma Moses, Nancy Haynes, Denzil Hurley, Xylor Jane, Karen Kilimnik, Elisabeth Kley,
Sadie Laska, Sherrie Levine, Lily Ludlow, Mary Manning, Erin O'Donnell, Elena Pankova, Noam Rappaport,
Martha Rosler, David Benjamin Sherry, Sue Tompkins...Organized by Marc Hundley
 

Randall's Island
May 4-7, 2017

Robin Peck recently had a sculpture acquired by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. The work was generously gifted by the Alex Katz Foundation, New York City.

Katherine Bradford is included in the group exhibition Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime curated by Joel Sternfeld at the Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vt.

Artists for Haiti Paddle8 benefit auction
Online bidding runs from March 15th-March 30th

Join us Sunday, March 20th, 5-8pm for a reception and artwork viewing
M5 Showroom 375 West Broadway (between Broome and Spring)
Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome.

Artists for Haiti is an auction to benefit the creative youth of the Haitian community of Cazale, to thank them for their enthusiastic help in realizing C.T. Jasper and Joanna Malinowska's Halka/Haiti:18°48’05″N 72°23’01″. The piece documents an opera performance in the village of Cazale and was later presented in the Polish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Proceeds from this auction will also support two Port-au-Prince-based organizations that collaborated on the production of Halka/Haiti: the Orchestre Philharmonique Sainte Trinite and the Fundation Culture Creation.  

Participating artists include; Jan Baracz, Huma Bhabha, Katherine Bradford, Sarah Braman, Emily Davidson, Lesny JN Felix, Jason Fox, Ewa Harabasz, Maryam Jafri, Elisabeth Kley, Elka Krajewska, Stuart Lorimer, Michael Mahalchick, C.T. Jasper & Joanna Malinowska, Andrea Mastrovito, Keith Morrison, Luke Murphy, Odili Donald Odita, Karyn Olivier, Elena Pankova, Dushko Petrovich, R.H. Quaytman, Michael Smith, Radek Szlaga, Mary Temple, Anke Weyer, Wallace Whitney, Krzysztof Wodiczko